groves dissent

[Marc.McDonald at Design-Intelligence.com]

> There's a big difference between ambiguity and aliasing.
> 
> I think that you're overstating the difference, especially since AFs
> also provide disambiguation.
> 
> The difference is one of degree, not of kind: AFs allow you to
> associate more than one universal name with a single markup item,
> while Namespaces allow you to associate only one universal name with a
> markup item.  In other words
> 
> Namespaces:          markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,1)
> Architectural Forms: markup-item (0,*) <-> name (0,*)
> 
	^^^^^^ What I meant, more accurately expressed.

> Unfortunately, AFs came out with three strikes against them: they were
> developed by ISO (yawn!), they were introduced as an appendix to the
> very long and intense HyTime spec (awk!), and they weren't very webby
> (oops!).  They also hit a foul with their convoluted mechanism for
> attribute mapping.
> 
> I agree with Eliot Kimber and others, though, that eventually XML will
> need something like AFs.
> 
I happen to like architectures far more than namespaces.


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> 
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